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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:36:32+00:00

I’m working on understanding and drawing my own DLL for PDF417 (2d barcodes). Anyhow,

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I’m working on understanding and drawing my own DLL for PDF417 (2d barcodes). Anyhow, the actual drawing of the file is perfect, and in correct boundaries of 32 bits (as monochrome result). At the time of writing the data, the following is a memory dump as copied from C++ Visual Studio memory dump of the pointer to the bmp buffer. Each row is properly allocated to 36 wide before the next row.

Sorry about the wordwrap in the post, but my output was intended to be the same 36 bytes wide as the memory dump so you could better see the distortion.

The current drawing is 273 pixels wide by 12 pixels high, monochrome…

00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00

Here is the code to WRITE the file out — verbatim immediately at the time of the memory dump from above

FILE *stream;  if( fopen_s( &stream, cSaveToFile, 'w+' ) == 0 )  {     fwrite( &bmfh, 1, (UINT)sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER), stream );     fwrite( &bmi, 1, (UINT)sizeof(BITMAPINFO), stream );     fwrite( &RGBWhite, 1, (UINT)sizeof(RGBQUAD), stream );    fwrite( ppvBits, 1, (UINT)bmi.bmiHeader.biSizeImage, stream );     fclose( stream );  }

Here’s what ACTUALLY Gets written to the file.

00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab a8 61 d7 18 ed 18 f7 a3 89 1c dd 70 86 f5 f7 1a 20 91 3b c9 27 e7 67 12 1c 68 ae 3c b7 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0d 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0d 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 81 4b ca 07 6b 9c 11 40 9a e6 0c 76 0d 0a fc a3 33 70 bb 30 55 87 e9 c4 10 58 d9 ea 0d 48 3e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0d 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0d 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0d 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0d 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 7e d0 29 e8 14 f4 0d 0a 7a 05 3c 37 ba 86 87 04 db b6 09 dc a0 62 fc d1 31 79 bc 5c 0d 0a 8e 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00 00 ab 85 43 c5 30 e2 26 70 4a 1a f3 e4 4d ce 2a 3f 79 cd bc e6 de 73 6f 39 b7 9c db ce 6d 5f be 02 eb 00 00

Notice the start of the distortion with the ‘0d’ in the result from reading the file back in the 4th line, about the 15th byte over… Then, there are a few more staggered around which in total, skew the image off by 9 bytes worth…

Obviously, the drawing portion is working ok as everything remains properly aligned in memory for the 12 lines.

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  1. Shouldn’t you open the file in a compound mode i.e. writable & binary as in wb+?

    Notice the start of the distortion with the ‘0d’

    That’s ASCII code for Carriage Return (CR) — added on some OSes with newline (where a newline is actually a sequence of CR/LF). This should go away once you start writing the output in binary mode.

    Your code looks neat otherwise. Cheers!

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